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But I'm not sure I would even put it in the top five reasons she lost considering those types weren't going to vote for her anyway.
#126 | Posted by jpw

I think it works like this.
If you are racist, and you see a black pilot, you'll think "Boy, I sure hope he's qualified!"
So you start by seeing a black woman candidate, and you find reasons they're not qualified, that you wouldn't go looking for in a while male candidate.
I think it applies some extra weight to those criticisms. It makes them all a little more concerning. We see this type of reaction from cops and judges every day. Or famously in Katrina, when white people were "gathering needed supplies" and black people were "looting."

This isn't something that should take any convincing. It's like like how the NAACP had to find a squeaky clean black person with no criminal record whatsoever to do their bus boycott. Because if if it had been someone with a criminal record, someone who wasn't well spoken, or someone who mouthed off to the cops, well, that would have just been uppity and nobody likes those ones.

This is also how Jackie Robinson who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. The owners actually had another player in mind; I can't remember the name. But when they asked him, you know you'll get called all kinds of names, how are you going to react to that, he replied he'd punch someone out if they called him a n-----. So they picked Jackie, who was more willing to let those insults go by and not take them too personally.

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